Prominent Atheist Finds Religion in Robot

The biggest problem with incipient fascism, according to many prominent Democrats, is that other Democrats are using words like incipient.

This spider felt threatened and was defending itself. Case dismissed.

The specific act I'm thinking of would have been so much easier to do in 1995.

weekly household conversation watching a movie/show: "What's up with __________? They look off." "Lost too much weight." "Oh. Right."

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Very broadly speaking, the Court leaves its biggest cases to the end of the term. Shelby County was June 25, 2013. Brnovich, July 1, 2021. Those dates would be too late for Callais to matter. But with midterms looming and a GOP House majority looking fragile, this decision came in late April. Huh!

The Venn Diagram of men who don't think women are people but believe machines are is a circle.

What's next? Seasoning?

I can't decide if this guy will get a job with Hegseth or Jeff Landry.

I have been sitting with this today because 😮‍💨

This is truly where we are

The Supreme Court is irredeemably corrupt.

This decision is one of the most straightforwardly racist in U.S. history. It is in many ways the end of democracy as we know it. How they speak about it and what they plan to do to address it should become the new litmus test for any Democratic candidate seeking higher office.

SCOTUS: "iT' nOT aBoUt raCe." Louisiana Republicans: "It is now illegal for Black people to hold elected office."

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No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

Actions which at one time would have seemed radical to preserve democracy should no longer even be controversial.

John Roberts has been trying to kill the Voting Rights Act since he served in the Reagan administration in the 80s. He gutted Sections 4 & 5 in 2013. This term, he'll gut section 2. it will be his crowning achievement. bsky.app/profile/rewi...

The new "somber, conciliatory tone" in action, I guess.

I'm not in the mood to talk and think like a zen Jedi. I'm in the mood to say outright that you can never hate these people enough and nothing can ever happen to them that is so bad I will say it's enough.

1/ I will say this—as someone who lived in the South—two outcomes to prepare for right now. 1st, the outcome will hit the local-level politics hardest. Section 2 increased the power of Black and Hispanic voters everywhere. 2nd, what Sam Alito can’t get rid of is: these pissed off same voters.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

John Roberts is the Roger B. Taney of William Rehnquists.

He's managed to ruin escaping the country.

Some people should be more careful about vetting information and not engaging in conspiratorial thinking. Other people should not immediately employ bullshit verbatim talking points to exploit tragedy for political advantage.

So they can't figure out if he even fired his gun. But it's an "assassination attempt." OK.

I'm tired of having to make thoughtful disclaimers and rhetorically tiptoe around talking about the guy who led a fucking physical insurrection to overturn the results of an election.

Any building where the press is assembling to suck up to the fascist Leader should be at least as safe as an elementary school.

Osama bin Laden and Donald Trump are comparable figures relevant to the deaths and miseries they respectively cause(d) and the terror they unleashed. This isn't really relevant to anything unless you thought the death of the former was good but scold those who long for the death of the latter.

Every time I see one of these quotes, I've never heard of the specific example they're citing.

"Sir, Obamdani has formed."

I actually don't think Gen X is uniquely bad (full disclosure: I'm one). When we entered the work force 30 years ago, the worst reactionaries keeping us down were 45-64. 30 years before that, when some of those people weren't reactionary yet, the worst reactionaries keeping them down were....45-64.

But yeah this seems to be less about conflicted Catholics in general and more about the cross pressures between white racial solidarity and religious commitments with many of them choosing white racial solidarity but making a pained face while doing so

What if I told you it was actually the easiest situation anybody has ever been in?

All together now...COVERED IN BEES!

THE OLD MAN'S SPEWING FORTUNE COOKIE FORTUNES AGAIN

My kid just said "I'm done with history," and I think that's the first time I was able to break out a "You may be done with history, but it's not done with you" in the wild.

[extremely Harry Dean Stanton voice]

Love to be on BlueSky

Peak Texas, with all disrespect

[aroma of frankincense proliferates, an organ intones] BY GAWD IT'S THE BISHOPS' MUSIC

You can tell ideas are thin among the MAGA set because when one pops off in their little group chats, they all run to find cameras as fast as they can and start repeating it. "Just war theory! Just war theory! Just war theory!"

I'm revisiting Led Zeppelin in light of Sinners? It makes sense, but I can't quite explain it yet. It's not because I'm high. I mean, I am, but that's not why.

Pet dogs are held to a higher standard than male presidents

Female sports reporters are held to a higher standard than male presidents.

Unless you've ever shaken off a crawfish boil hangover to make it to 9:00 am service or kept partying to stay awake for midnight mass on Christmas eve or sat through a full mass wedding in a church with no air conditioning on a Saturday in July, I don't care what you think about Catholic theology.

Sometimes there are people who are interesting characters, fascinating even. And if there were in a book or a movie you would be like, "What a well-written, fascinating, quirky, unique and original character." But, if you have to, like, work with them, every day you don't commit murder is a miracle.

I don't think touching grass is enough for this guy. He needs to plant grass or something.